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I ate my first fig if the year. I'm in Santa Maria, CA. The fig is behind my church. Can anyone tell the variety? It's an early fig. It ripened this breba despite a cool cloudy spring. The tree is loaded with main crop figs which are fairly decent size considering how early it is in the season. It was very sweet tasting. I'm thinking Osborne prolific or Olympian? Any thoughts?

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Does anyone have any thoughts?

Definitely not Olympian!

Based on the leaf it might be Neveralla or Beall (or another of many varieties with similar leaf shape).  Read Condit's written descriptions of Figs with that color of skin in "Fig Varieties: A Monograph" (available as a downloadable PDF from my website) and see if you can match your Fig to any of his descriptions.

Happy Growing,   kiwibob, Seattle

See my Website:   http://sites.google.com/site/kiwifruitsalad2

Thanks! I'll check it out!

Kiwibob is right.

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